Quotes on Touring

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I've learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.